Example sentences of "to stay the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ended up we had to get her and the kids out of the house and get them somewhere to stay the night . |
| 2 | They found plenty of common Church interests and then friendship ; they had conversations , which Ramsey enjoyed enormously , about matters political as well as religious ; Ramsey went over to Garrowby several times for meals or to stay the night and celebrate the sacrament in the morning ; and he conducted Halifax 's funeral at Kirby Underdale in 1959 . |
| 3 | As on all the other Monaghan Days stretching far back he had come intending to stay the night . |
| 4 | The hut seems the ideal place to stay the night if the storm holds , but I am not sure if I am allowed to : it is full of instructions which are all written in Icelandic . |
| 5 | A simple turbocharging job turns the lethargic twin-litre 940 SE into a spirited performer designed to stay the right side of the company car tax . |
| 6 | It 'd be real easy — I 'd just say to myself ‘ Well , I think I 'll just pop over and see Marie today ’ , and five minutes later I 'd be there and we could have tea together , then if I did n't want to stay the night I 'd just fly into the sky again and stay there . |
| 7 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 8 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 9 | You might like to stay the same weight but change your shape . |
| 10 | Nigel asked me if I wanted to stay the weekend . |
| 11 | If you want Britain to stay the same then you probably wo n't like this manifesto . |
| 12 | But I grabbed something to stay the pangs of hunger on the way down . |
| 13 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 14 | Our little grandson Mark , now two years old , came once a week to stay the night with us to delight us with his charming presence . |
| 15 | Personal pathology , individual incompetence , were easy excuses for the inability of many officers to stay the course . |
| 16 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 17 | It is often asked when a firm is taking on people for training when a lot of money will be wasted if the trainee does not have what it takes to stay the course . |
| 18 | He wondered whether Alice Mair would invite Lessingham to stay the night at Martyr 's Cottage or whether he would be driven home later by her or her brother . |
| 19 | Remember , most dieters fail to stay the course . |
| 20 | After the ceremony , at around one in the morning , Dustin rang his friend , actor Stanley Beck ( who would later appear in John and Mary and Lenny , and co-produce Straight Time ) , telling him he had nowhere to stay the night . |
| 21 | We throw out any stale crumbs for the birds , and yet we sometimes expect our lives to stay the same and always remain satisfying . |
| 22 | After they were finally discovered to be there , the minister pleaded for them to be allowed to stay the night , and guaranteed they would be at the Children 's Panel Hearing in Kirkwall the next day . |
| 23 | OLDHAM boss Joe Royle is backing his old Norwich City pals to stay the course and pull off the first Premier League title . |
| 24 | In 1988 UMF won a court order to stay the receivership and asked PW to act as monitor . |
| 25 | Could you ask me to stay the night here , for one thing ? ’ |
| 26 | The announcement that National Insurance rates are to stay the same is more window-dressing , I think . |
| 27 | Student Ken Payton , 22 , from New York , said : ‘ I hope to stay the pace and follow it through the night . ’ |
| 28 | Nadine had been invited to stay the night at Deanne 's home and the girls were walking there with Deanne 's mother Sharon and her boyfriend when tragedy struck . |
| 29 | The men were going to stay the night in Llangollen , thirty miles from their destination , and hoped to be with us around ten the next morning . |
| 30 | ‘ We would have had to stay the night at Zagora , anyway . |